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"I found love on a prison ship..." {X5}"Number 247681-Z, step to the line"{*gunshot*}[Cage]Two types of people in this world to recognizeConquered, and the one holding the rifle at the next in lineThe crosshair in my eye is a vessel to godThe container that kept you around is in a hole in the yardSail the cemetery seas, half the crew leaves then move onYou have no idea how right my head is screwed onWhen I wake up and put this suit on, I feel escape beginExpirations are needed, I facilitate the end[El-P]There are two types of mornings/mournings in this life I can surmiseI wake early in the first to help supply the second typeTechnician of repetition clips in the numbest of traditions itsThe little wondrous blunders that can summon one's demiseI know the line to walk, talk softly, punch a clock, aim (pow) doneI see the shelter in contrition, best to limit wagging tonguesBut today's a confrontation with a thought that's not assuredSongtexteShe's inching closer to my services and further from my world"I found love on a prison ship..." {X8}[El-P]Does this job ever bother you, darkly creep up in your conscious too?[Cage]Nope, in fact I'm so enamored with the standardof being handed a command to (pow), it's almost romanticThe lead giveth, I take it, if I didn't understand it[El-P]I'm saying during the tenure of your gig, have you ever herded a prisWho despite the traitorous label, makes you nervous as a kid?Maybe beyond a date with the lead, there's something else meant forA prisoner with the beauty of 247290-Z[Cage] Oh God, you gotta be joking, I get it she's smokingGo get a taste, I'll hold you down for thirty, she must be purty, you're openYour secret's safe with me, go on a raping spreeI gotta couple numbers of my own, just return the courtesy[El-P]No, nah man, that's actually not on my mindSomehow its different this time. I meanShould a creature so sublime and young really be in line for the gunAnd am I the one to dispense it? She seems almost defenselessAnd her eyes have the surprising effect of rendering me restless"You know, you look really pretty without handcuffs onWithout the dirt on your face..."Like the piss and stench of the huddled traitors evaporates from the roomAnd in that moment I can see her truly, and she can see me tooBeneath the body armor and weaponry, my heart quietly thumps and whispers"Drop the guns and grab her, now's the time to make your run"Sitting in my transport as we slip through traffic veinsShe doesn't ask me where we're going, only holds my hand and gazeShe's my only reason now, and my only hope to liveWe pull up to the cabin way above this damn metropolisMe and prisoner 247290-ZSomewhere that is Soilent Green, we're living life insteadNo more war on traitorism, only me and herShe can clean my gun and I could help her clean the floorBack to something natural, we'll live off of the landWhen Radon levels drop we walk the trails and talk and laughI tell her she's innocent, and she'll show me she's notI kiss the number on her arm and lay her on the cotI'm the first to touch her without gloves onShe's the first to kiss me without cryingLife before this was just dyingMe and prisoner 247290-ZAway from all this violence, live inside each other's heads... (repeating X4)"Number 247290-Zed, step to the line"[Soldiers]"Dammit Lindt, fire your weapon!""Yes sir"{*gunshot*}"I found love on a prison ship..." {X7}[Soldiers]"She's dead Lindt, just how we wanted it. Great.""Just how we wanted it (laughing)""You shot the shit out of her Lindt. I'm proud of you. Go home" Aus Songtexte Mania